You get sick; you go to your doctor. Too bad. Because medicine isn't an industry, it's practically
witchcraft. Despite the growth of big pharma, HMOs, and hospital chains, medicine remains the isolated work of individual doctors - and the system is going broke fast. So why is Andy Kessler - the man who told you outrageous stories of Wall Street analysts gone bad in Wall Street Meat and
tales from inside a hedge fund in Running Money - poking
around medicine for the next big wave of technology? It's because he smells change coming. Heart attacks, strokes, and cancer are a huge chunk of medical spending, yet there's surprisingly little effort to detect disease before it's life threatening. How…
This book is about Andy Kessler looking around for something in medicine that will scale like the tech companies did in the 90's. The book is written from the perspective of an outsider, so it is… If you want to get a good look at what's in store for the future in Health Care, this is certainly a "must read". It could also give some interested investor's some insight into potential investments…
